{"id":24242,"date":"2026-08-04T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/hes-tiny-dumpy-and-funny-so-his-bmx-tricks-are-hilarious-tanuki-pons-summer-an-adorable-slice-of-life-adventure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:38:25","slug":"hes-tiny-dumpy-and-funny-so-his-bmx-tricks-are-hilarious-tanuki-pons-summer-an-adorable-slice-of-life-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/hes-tiny-dumpy-and-funny-so-his-bmx-tricks-are-hilarious-tanuki-pons-summer-an-adorable-slice-of-life-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s tiny, dumpy and funny \u2013 so his BMX tricks are hilarious\u2019: Tanuki: Pon\u2019s Summer, an adorable slice-of-life adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denkiworks\u2019 debut lets players pull off tricks and pull pints in a stunning, Japan-inspired setting<\/p>\n

A freeloading tanuki, mounting debt, and a town full of possibilities will sound familiar to fans of Animal Crossing<\/a>. Alas, while you won\u2019t find accountability from Tom Nook, Kyoto-based studio Denkiworks has stepped in to heal your financial trauma with a BMX-filled adventure in which a mammal finally pays the price for their years of bad behaviour. \u201cEven Japanese people ask why it\u2019s a tanuki,\u201d jokes Liam Edwards, a game designer at Denkiworks. \u201cThey have such a mythological background to them; they\u2019re almost like dragons in terms of their mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Tanuki: Pon\u2019s Summer, you play as an adorable but irresponsible critter named Pon, who\u2019s bled the coffers of the local shrine \u2013 his home \u2013 dry by buying video games and snack food instead of preparing for its semicentennial matsuri. As a result, the shrine is in total disrepair, and important architecture and cultural artefacts \u2013 such as the ema stand and the ch\u014dzuya \u2013 are left cracked and broken, unbefitting a festival half a century in the making.<\/p>\n

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\nDenkiworks\u2019 debut lets players pull off tricks and pull pints in a stunning, Japan-inspired setting
\nA freeloading tanuki, mounting debt, and a town full of possibilities will sound familiar to fans of Animal Crossing. Alas, while you won\u2019t find accountability from Tom Nook, Kyoto-based studio Denkiworks has stepped in to heal your financial trauma with a BMX-filled adventure in which a mammal finally pays the price for their years of bad behaviour. \u201cEven Japanese people ask why it\u2019s a tanuki,\u201d jokes Liam Edwards, a game designer at Denkiworks. \u201cThey have such a mythological background to them; they\u2019re almost like dragons in terms of their mythology.\u201d
\nIn Tanuki: Pon\u2019s Summer, you play as an adorable but irresponsible critter named Pon, who\u2019s bled the coffers of the local shrine \u2013 his home \u2013 dry by buying video games and snack food instead of preparing for its semicentennial matsuri. As a result, the shrine is in total disrepair, and important architecture and cultural artefacts \u2013 such as the ema stand and the ch\u014dzuya \u2013 are left cracked and broken, unbefitting a festival half a century in the making. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denkiworks\u2019 debut lets players pull off tricks and pull pints in a stunning, Japan-inspired setting A freeloading tanuki, mounting debt, and a town full of possibilities will sound familiar to fans of Animal Crossing. Alas, while you won\u2019t find accountability from Tom Nook, Kyoto-based studio Denkiworks has stepped in to heal your financial trauma with …<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s tiny, dumpy and funny \u2013 so his BMX tricks are hilarious\u2019: Tanuki: Pon\u2019s Summer, an adorable slice-of-life adventure<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}